"Writing is the painting of the voice...." - Quote by Voltaire

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”

“Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.”

“Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.”

“Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.”

“I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.”

“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”

“Art is lies that tell the truth.”